Karen Pittman of 'The Morning Show' chats with THR at the BAFTA Tea Party and shares how she'd like to guest star on 'Abbott Elementary' and gushes over 'Baby Reindeer.' She also revealed what her first job in Hollywood was and who was the last co-star she texted.
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00:00Hi Karen, we spoke to you last night at the THR nominees party. How was it? Did you have the time
00:04of your life? Oh my god, I danced, I had fun, I took pictures which are on my IG right now.
00:16It was a great, that house was amazing. I mean, I met all the reporters that I see on the round
00:24table, on the actor round table, on the director round table that I really admire who's so smart
00:29and ask so many good questions and in general I had a good time. It was our first party of
00:35the Emmy weekend and so it was great, it was fun, it was great to celebrate. Yeah,
00:41well I saw you tearing it up on the dance floor. Oh my god. Yes, but now we're being very demure,
00:46it's a tea party. Very demure, as you can see I'm dressed in my most demure
00:51outfit. I love the bow. Yes, the bow. Last night I was in red, today I'm quite demure.
00:57I love it. So since this is a tea party, I wanted to ask if you can spill the tea on a few things
01:02for me. Okay, let's spill it. Okay, so let's spill the tea on the best thing you've seen on TV this
01:07year. Well, that's probably Jessica Gunning who's standing right over there talking to somebody
01:13in Baby Reindeer. I thought she was extraordinary. I've never seen her before, whoever the casting
01:17director is for that show, I need to know them. They're amazing. I thought that, that's one of
01:22my favorite shows of all time, so I'm spilling the tea on how great Jessica Gunning is, yeah.
01:27I love that, I love that. Who was the last person from the morning show that you texted,
01:32and what was it about? I texted Greta Lee going into this big weekend, wanted to see how she was,
01:43and I sent a picture to Mark Deplass from pictures we took last night. He's so fun and
01:50so great, and I saw him and his wife Katie last night, so it's fun, great time, yeah.
01:57The next show that you would love to guest star on? Abbott Elementary. Abbott, I think Quinta
02:03Brunson is so smart and so fun and so gorgeous, and I love that show, and I would really love
02:12to guest on that show at some point. Did you talk to her last night? Did we pitch that out there?
02:16Oh yeah, I definitely talked to her about it. I definitely pitched it. I've been pitching it for
02:19a year now. She's got this cute little new haircut. She's just adorable. She already looks
02:25about, you know, 20. Now she looks 15. So yeah, she's so cute and great, and just really a powerhouse
02:34of a showrunner, writer, actress. Just love her. Would love to work with her at some point.
02:39And finally, the first job you had in Hollywood?
02:43What was the first job I had? Here, where I went to set one day?
02:50In Hollywood? That may have been the, it's not the first job I got in Los Angeles,
02:56but the first, oh no, the first job I got was on a show. Oh my gosh, what's her name?
03:06Who's Rosanna Arquette's sister?
03:19Patricia Arquette's television show many, many, many years ago, and I was pregnant with my
03:25daughter. And I was like, maybe very early in my pregnancy, maybe like six, seven weeks,
03:32but I got in this job and I was so excited. It was one of my first few jobs in LA,
03:36and I was so, so tired. And I was standing all day and Patricia came up to me and said,
03:42hi, how are you doing? Because I was looking like a little, you know, hi, how are you doing? Are you
03:46all right? What's going on? And I was like, little known secret, I'm pregnant and I've been on my
03:51feet all day. And she was like, somebody, somebody come over here and give her a chair. She was so
03:55kind, so sweet, so mothering because she knew exactly what it was like, you know, and that was
04:01back in 2008. Yeah, yeah, when I was pregnant with my daughter. So that was my first job.
04:07And here we are now, right?
04:09Here we are! Isn't that crazy? Oh my gosh. Anyway, yeah.
04:14Well, congratulations again on everything and enjoy, grab some tea, right?
04:18I'm going to have some tea.